Citizen station DW8450DW8450
In a volunteer observer's own ground/3.8 mi away/6,881 ft/323 ft below here
temp, humidity, wind, precip, pressure
Weather/New Mexico/Cañoncito
Cañoncito, New Mexico
Community in Santa Fe County, New Mexico42°
59°/33°
Clear·
Feels like 38°·Light breeze 6 mph NE
Now. Cañoncito is 42° and clear at 12 AM. With the wind it feels like 38°. The dew point is 32°, so the air feels dry and comfortable. Light breeze from the northeast at 6 mph.
Today and tonight. It warms to about 58° by 3 PM. Tonight falls to about 32° by 5 AM, under a mostly clear sky. A freeze: protect plants and pipes. No rain is expected for the rest of the day. The sun is strong around midday: UV index 7, high. Unprotected skin can burn in under half an hour.
The week. The warmest day ahead is Wednesday, near 66°, and the coolest tomorrow, near 62°. Rain is likely Tuesday (52%), Wednesday (63%) and Thursday (63%). The first freeze could come tomorrow, a low of 31°.
The sky tonight. The sun sets at 6:27 PM. The Moon is a waxing crescent, 34% lit, and sets at 10:37 PM. The next full Moon is Sunday, Oct 25. After dark, look for Saturn, bright in the east-southeast. A planet shines with a steady light where the stars around it twinkle. The Orionids meteor shower is active, peaking around Oct 21: at its peak, up to about 20 meteors an hour can be seen from a dark site. The sky is forecast to stay clear: a good night to look up. The day is 11 hours 18 minutes long, 3 minutes shorter than yesterday.
0UV Low
29Air quality
70%Humidity
6%Cloud
Now
12:00 AM
42feels38
now, clear
Today
Oct 16
5933
UV 7
Sat
Oct 17
6231
UV 7
Sun
Oct 18
6338
UV 7
Mon
Oct 19
6542
UV 7
Tue
Oct 20
6545
52%
UV 6
Wed
Oct 21
6646
63%
Thu
Oct 22
6447
63%
42°
59°33°
62°31°
63°38°
65°42°
65°45°
66°46°
64°47°
As of 12:00 AM in Cañoncito, New Mexico.
Air quality
The air at Cañoncito
Index 29, good, led by ozone. Read at 11 PM from its reporting area, Santa Fe (NM), 14 miles off.
29Good
- Fine particles (PM2.5)19Good13.8 mi
- Ozone29Good27 ppb13.8 mi
The days ahead
Yesterday measured 44, good.
GoodModerate
- 44YesterdayOct 14
Smoke, the next 43 hours
No smoke near the ground through Sat 6 PM.
Precipitation
What has fallen at Cañoncito
None in the last 3 days, to Thu 11 PM. Measured by radar and rain gauges, as water.
- Last 24 hours
- 0.00in
- Last 3 days
- 0.00in
Visibility
How far you can see at Cañoncito, the next 43 hours
Visibility stays 10 miles or more through Sat 6 PM.
F
Now, today, and the week
On the radar over Cañoncito, New MexicoReflectivityStorm topsRain rateRain, last 24 hoursForecast temperatureForecast rain totalEvery picture
Weather instrument stations by state
What is measuring near here
The 7 instruments nearest Cañoncito, how far away each one is, how high it stands, and what kind of measurement it makes. The nearest is 0.8 miles away.
measured now5 instruments
Rank856of 956
A remote fire weather station/8.5 mi away/8,530 ft/1,326 ft above here
temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure
I-25 at RoweNM012
Beside a road/10.5 mi away/6,788 ft/416 ft below here
temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip
At an airfield/14.5 mi away/6,345 ft/859 ft below here
temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure
AlcaldeS2172
At a soil climate station/39.1 mi away/5,693 ft/1,511 ft below here
temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture
measured daily2 instruments
Santa Fe 10.9 SSENM-SF-190
In a volunteer observer's own ground/0.8 mi away/7,223 ft/19 ft above here
precip, snowfall, snow depth
Santa Fe SetonSFEN5
At a cooperative observer's station/6.0 mi away/6,989 ft/215 ft below here
snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low
Station report
The weather at Santa Fe Co. Muni, drawn
The nearest airport reporting now, 14.5 mi from Cañoncito, New Mexico. From its report of Oct 15, 2026, 11:53 PM local time: 3 of its 6 sheets.
The sky
No cloud below 12,000 ft; visibility 10 mi or more.
The air
41.0 F with a dew point of 32.0 F, 70 per cent relative humidity. Air lifted from the station would cool to its dew point, where cloud forms, about 2,100 ft up.
The wind
From the west (280 degrees) at 3 mph: force 1, a light air on the Beaufort scale. The strongest gust today was 32 mph.
The full report of Santa Fe Co. Muni, in 6 sheets, each beside the Field Book plates that explain it
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
0in
Snow on the ground
Measured at Santa Fe Seton (SFEN5), 6.0 miles from here, read 15 Oct, 06:30. measured daily
Elsewhere in New Mexico
18 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.
Near Cañoncito
The nearest places, each with its own forecast and the instruments nearest it.
- Cañada de los Alamoscommunity, 3 mi
- Valenciacommunity, 4 mi
- Lamycommunity, 5 mi
- Glorietacommunity, 5 mi
- Eldorado at Santa Fecommunity, 5 mi
- Sunlit Hillscommunity, 5 mi
- Seton Villagecommunity, 6 mi
- Santa Fe Foothillscommunity, 6 mi
- La Cuevacommunity, 7 mi
- Arroyo Hondocommunity, 7 mi
- Conejocommunity, 7 mi
- Pecosvillage, 9 mi